I love my shadow priest velf but in trying to create a narrative for her, I have a hard time reconciling the fact that she’s basically a void servant while simultaneously being a fighter for good.
Everything a priest is about is rooted in their faith, so a logical conclusion is shadow priests are servants of darkness. How do you guys rationalize spriests being any different from like, the Twilight’s Hammer, for example? I want my girl to be a force of good!!
I was having a conversation about this with a friend and they compared spriests to warlocks, but that doesn’t really clock to me because warlocks don’t believe in the evil they control, they just use it as a means to an end. The void fills up your mind and takes control of you, mind and body.
What do you think?
We are all unrestrained sociopaths who will gleefully murder entire species for the sake of loot and gold.
I am pretty sure that to us…evil is relative.
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Blood Elves were too edgy to be able to join the Alliance, but not Void Elves apparently…
There is truth in the void; that’s what makes it so insidious. While a shadow priest can look into it for answers, the trick is being able to discern the truth from the madness. They’re not inherently evil but they should probably listen to Nietzsche.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
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Evil necessarily right off the bat? No but face it, Shadow is evil. Void is evil. Yeah yeah you can call it ‘chaotic’ and so on but it’s pretty much always bad for everyone that uses it or at least the people around them eventually.
Nietzsche? He was a 19th century German philosopher.
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I want that giant helmet as a transmog piece, oh my god
You can always justify it as “Ends justify the means”, you’re using these dark powers to fight the greater evil. Or you can be to the Void what DHs are to Demons, using their powers to get an intricate knowledge of them.
Or you can just RP as a sadist who enjoys bringing misery to her enemies and is totally insane, perhaps come up with a backstory for why you turned to the shadow.
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Anything that doesn’t shine gold is evil.
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See, I don’t hate that. Maybe she could be a creepy Time Burton type character, with huge eyes, a glassy stare, and twitching fingers. She’s always watching…
Insane, but helping out the good guys.
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The Void isn’t really faith based like the Light. Anyone can use it. Your character could be a devote worshiper of the dark and not all there in the head. But you could also be like the void elves who just view it in a more logical way as a source of power. Umbric is a perfectly nice and reasonable guy despite being infused with the stuff.
The Void answers everyone and it’s not evil, It’s all about how you as the wielder choose to use it. Darkness is just another path. If you have the will to resist the Void can’t control you.
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One of a million reasons why even though I have RPed a Old God worshipper, I fundamentally oppose the Old Gods and the whispers being the source of a Shadow Priest’s power. The Void should be different from the Old Gods, not interchangeable.
Frankly speaking, I don’t mind if the Old Gods were born from or use that power, but they shouldn’t be the only game in town. In the same way, the Void-Lords should not be the end all be all of the Void and Shadow magic.
There should be power, and then those who wield it for whatever reason.
If a Priest reveres the shadow for the sake of balance and opposing the tyranny of the Light, such as what Yrel did on Draenor; it works. But you need Dark Naaru elements, and the dark aspects of space / time to make a solid spec. Not this Insanity / Tentacle Form bullcrap.
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I like the idea of Shadow Priests being like speakers for the dead, morticians, conducting funerals, communing with departed spirits etc…
Getting tagged along with the Void never made sense to me because I don’t think light/void can co-exist lol
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This is really interesting! I’d never considered this perspective.
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I don’t think so any Kind of power can be used for good or bad it’s completely up to the user if they wanna use it for good or bad purposes the fel seemed like it was evil because it was the legions power but Illidan used it against them so why can’t we use the void to fight the void lords? I think it’s completely your choice you can be a priest that is using the void to fight against them.
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Fully and completely. We torment the living and exploit the dying. We adhere ourselves to the darkest, coldest realities of the universe and actively participate in the gleeful entropy which will devour all matter, all time, and all hope.
At least, I do. I can’t speak for any slackers out there.
a priest practicing shadow/void magic is more about balance, otherwise we’d be full on corrupt and turning into abominations.